mouse meaning
EN
[maʊs] [mæws] [-aʊs] 
US UK WMouse
- A mouse (plural: mice) is a small mammal belonging to the order of rodents, characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail and a high breeding rate.
- The American white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) and the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), as well as other common species of mouse-like rodents around the world, also sometimes live in houses. These, however, are in other genera.
- Cats, wild dogs, foxes, birds of prey, snakes and even certain kinds of arthropods have been known to prey heavily upon mice.
- NounPLmice
- Any small rodent of the genus Mus.
- (informal) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.
- A quiet or shy person.
- (computing) (plural mice or, rarely, mouses) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.
- (boxing) Hematoma.
- (nautical) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out.
- (obsolete) A familiar term of endearment.
- A match used in firing guns or blasting.
- (set theory) A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).
- Any small rodent of the genus Mus.
- VerbSGmousesPRmousingPT, PPmoused
- (intransitive) To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).
- (intransitive) To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats.
- (transitive, nautical) To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.
- Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.
- (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
- (obsolete, nonce word, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
- (intransitive) To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Clausenamide (p.o., consecutive days) increased the density of hippocampal synapses and the number of mossy nerve fibre buddings in ablactated mice and adult rats (Zhang et al. 2001).
- Naive mice were injected intraarticularly with adenoviral vectors for IL-17 and/or GM-CSF, resulting in local overexpression.
- I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Mice were immunised with six individual immunodominant epitope-protein vaccine candidates and the resulting antisera tested for functional activity by in vitro opsonophagocytic killing assay (OPK).
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- That cat will always get its claws out when it sees a mouse.
- Subcutaneous immunization with N-PmpC EcN BGs also resulted in significantly higher systemic production of N-PmpC-specific IgG compared to conjunctivally immunized mice.
- This finding is consistent with previous work, which revealed a dichotomy between piliated tissue-associated UPEC and nonpiliated bacteria found in the urine of the same infected mouse.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of mouse in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "mouse" is a noun, more specifically, a nouns with irregular plural and a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.